Assuming that Chinese health authorities have their priorities straight, that must mean that eating US corn is more dangerous than breathing the air in Beijing. This is worrisome!

If you can't learn anything from movies, you have bigger problems than lacking business skills.

Actually, it was Win NT (which predates Win95). With Win95, you still had DOS and the Win32 as a shell programm separated, Win98 brought its own DOS but was still a Win32 subsystem running on top of it, and Win ME was just Win98C.

Actually, it's AB (for aktiebolaged).

Your math doesn't add up. Manaus, Belém, Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador da Bahia, Brasilia, Porto Alegre and Goiania together have more than 20 mio inhabitants, are each more than 1000 km away from Sao Paulo, and comprise more than 10% of the Brasilian population. (And if we add the suburbs of each of the cities, we easily arrive at more than 25%...) And that's just those few cities.

Actually, the people you mention don't get the flu. They just get a common cold, whose symptoms are quite similar to the flu, albeit not as strong. And people who never had antibodies against the special tribe of flu they got the shot against sometimes develop unspecified symptoms like faintness or joint pains which get associated with the flu, but have nothing to do with it. Some of the symptoms of the flu are caused by the body busily creating antibodies against the infection. If you get a shot that causes the body to create antibodies, then you will have similar symptoms.

He is. That's the arithmetic of elections. Whoever wins the majority of the votes, wins. As "nobody" is no one, the next in line is the winner, however weak his number of votes compared with "nobody" is. It's not a poll to measure the amount of cultural or political pessimism. It's a presidental election. The goal of the presidential election is to have a president.

There. Fixed that for you.

I don't know if you wanted to be funny, but in Germany, Walmart came, saw and went home beaten. They never found the leverage to implement their business model in Germany, never became competitive, and finally gave up.

Another problem of Walmart was that the tried to get better prices at the wholesalers, and then noticed that they are just some second class customer to them. Thus Walmart couldn't compete on prices, as they couldn't buy in large enough volumes. Yes, Walmart was just too small in Germany for their business model. Maybe if they had kept the Wertkauf chain of stores intact and slowly expanded their business, they might still have a presence in Germany - known as Wertkauf and not as Walmart.

Just keep the packaging and send it back to Amazon if it breaks. As Amazon is the seller, they have to take it back for the next two years and repair or replace it.

The government competence at distinguishing sustainable businesses from losers is about the same than the competence of every other investor. Businesses fail. All the time. And the investors in the failed businesses lose. (And the workers waiting for outstanding pay lose. And the suppliers lose. And the town the business is incorporated in loses.) The average business founder is according to your definition incompetent, as most businesses fail within a few years. The average investor is incompetent, as most businesses he invests in, cost him money.

But only if the government is involved, it is all the fault of of the government, right?

[Citation needed]

Or: you are a liar.

Yes and no. The 90% are only valid if the laser beam hits the object nearly at 90 degrees. Then indeed, the reflection will cause 90% of the energy to be reflected and 10% will be heating the surface. But still, this means we need to have a 10 times larger laser to have the same effect than on a non reflective (black) object.

But in general, the beam will hit the surface at lower angles, and then we have to multiply the energy with the sinus of the angle. So if it hits the surface at 45 degrees, only about 71% of the energy will be transferred, and we need to increase the laser beam another 40%. And at lower angles, there is total reflection, and 0% of the laser will be able to heat the surface, as 100% of the energy is reflected. In general: if we build a drone like a stealth bomber with a shell of plane, mirroring facettes, laser beams will be rendered totally ineffective except for the seldom case that they hit the drone's surface at 90 degrees with 10 times the necessary energy.

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Giving a surface a reflective coating and polish it is a craft humanity knows since at least 2000 BC (that's about the age of the oldest mirror ever found). So I don't expect 1) to be valid in any sense.